[Plastic bag suffocation in material collected by Department of Forensic Medicine in Krakow]

Cases of death resulting from placing a plastic bag on the victim's head are very rare. In the last 20 years, in the Department of Forensic Medicine in Krakow, there were fourteen such cases examined. Their number is, however, noticeably growing, amounting to as many as few cases per year. Death resulting from this mechanism is difficult from the diagnostic point of view and often the only indicative evidence is a presence of a plastic bag on the head.